Ever want to see how the “Snow White and Seven Dwarfs” plays out as a sex fantasy? Nope, but we do kinda want to see Paul McCarthy taken to the farthest possible extreme. We’re promised “a massive, fantastical forest of towering trees with grotesque video projections of iconic characters playing out their own fairy tale drama in a replica of his childhood home.” Instagram’s about to get interesting.

Watch out Lower East Side. Chelsea gallerinas Margaret Kross and Suzie Oppenheimer are stepping in for Toomer Labzda this summer, where they and other young curators will be pumping out as many shows as they possibly can. Shows run for around ten days each.

Won’t you take me to. Monkey Town. The Brooklyn-based screening-and-dinner series takes over Eyebeam all summer long, where they’ll share their cultivated tastes in both videos and food. This time, they’ve enlisted some of New York’s finest chefs, veterans from Roberta’s, Pulqueria, Gramercy Tavern, and others. Don’t miss, but make sure to buy tickets well in advance.

Summer’s a good time to break the gallery routine, and this means sound art. One of my favorite qualities about the sound art performances I’ve seen is a certain intimacy that’s shared with the audience and artist. This will be along those lines;1 hosts a series of salon-style performances in a loft.

A summer show of Jews in New York. They write, “There’s no ethnic group that hasn’t been neatly encapsulated, no far-flung city that hasn’t been given a biennial to host. For a while, it was just Dakar, Sao Paulo, Istanbul, and Osaka, but now even the tertiary and quaternary hubs, Ouagadougu, Antananarivo, Ulaanbaator, and Manaus, are booked solid. The same goes for earth’s cohorts. Every time you turn around, somebody is giving us a glimpse of what’s going on among the Aleutians, the Maori, the Ainu, the Uzbeck diaspora. There’s nobody left to survey, and nowhere left to do it. So we figured our only option was to do a show of Jews and do it in New York”

Expo and Warm Up: PS122-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave, Long Island City Expo: Free, Through August 18th Warm Up: $15 advance, $18 at the door, June 29th – September 7th

PS1 continues Expo, its environmental summit response to Hurricane Sandy, and re-ups Warm-Up, its Saturday experimental music performance. We dunno anything about music, but we do trust the selection committee, which this year includes luminaries from Pitchfork, True Panther Sounds, and others. (It’s PS1, so there’s bound to be something good). Make sure to get Warm-Up tickets ahead of time, as they’re cheaper.

Two of the city’s more forward-thinking granting programs, the Elizabeth Foundation and A Blade of Grass, team up to create The Hive, three projects exploring empathy. The Feminist Economics Department explores the exploitative nature of the security industry, Robby Herbst explores group dynamics, and Piero Passacantando will encourage people to rethink the cubicle.

Along those lines, and off the gallery circuit, the feminist art series Garden Party/Arts hosts one-day garden shows and dinner parties, publishes a text, and then hosts an invite-only dinner party to discuss the ideas. That may sound exclusive, but think of the show as a performance, with a fleetingness that’s naturally part of breaking the gallery mold. Looks like they’re still seeking locations.